Four schools within the Mowbray Education Trust have improved their wireless performance following professional on-site WiFi fault-finding surveys from Redway Networks. The schools which include John Ferneley College, Brownlow Primary, Sherard Primary and the Grove Primary, were all suffering from insufficient WiFi coverage and the Trust instructed Redway Networks to conduct professional WiFi surveys and recommend remedial works to improve performance.

Redway Networks used its ‘gold standard’ on-site WiFi survey methodology to analyse each network and identify where the WiFi problems were. The findings were then presented to the Trust in a WiFi report which showed a visual representation (using Ekahau software) of the current networks and the performance gaps - which Redway proposed to fix through corrective work including network configuration and higher-performing access points.

John Ferneley College was the first school to be surveyed as it is the largest school in the Trust with 1100 students. Redway Networks evaluated the infrastructure and identified several issues where the WiFi was not meeting requirements. Recommendations to improve the WiFi performance were then presented to the Trust and this was used as a blueprint to roll out to the other schools.

Bobby Wallace, Group IT Services Manager at Mowbray Education Trust says:

“As our schools added more devices to the network, the existing WiFi wasn’t providing enough coverage in the classrooms and the students were spending too much lesson time trying to login to the WiFi which urgently needed rectifying. I opted for onsite WiFi surveys as opposed to simulation surveys, as I felt the fault-finding would be more comprehensive in a live environment. Since the remedial works were done, all the schools have more reliable wireless network connectivity with much better coverage and faster WiFi. The service we received from Redway Networks was brilliant… faultless…and easy from top to bottom.”

If your school would like more information about next-generation WiFi within education, Redway Networks can be contacted on: info@redwaynetworks.com or 01908 046400

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